Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Understanding the great recession Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari and Mark Setterfield; 2. America's exhausted paradigm: macroeconomic causes of the financial crisis and great recession Thomas I. Palley; Part II. Emergence of Financial Instability: 3. Minsky's money manager capitalism: assessment and reform L. Randall Wray; 4. Trying to serve two masters: the dilemma of financial regulation Jan Kregel; 5. How bonus-driven 'rainmaker' financial firms enrich top employees, destroy shareholder value, and create systemic financial instability James Crotty; Part III. Household Spending and Debt: Source of Past Growth-Seeds of Recent Collapse: 6. The end of the consumer age Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; 7. Wages, demand and US macroeconomic travails: diagnosis and prognosis Mark Setterfield; Part IV. Global Dimensions of US Crisis: 8. Global imbalances and US trade in the great recession and its aftermath Robert Blecker; Part V. Economic Policy after the Great Recession: 9. Confronting the Kindleberger moment: credit, fiscal, and regulatory policy to avoid economic disaster Gerald Epstein; 10. Fiscal policy: the recent record and lessons for the future Dean Baker; 11. No need to panic about US government deficits Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; 12. Fiscal policy for the great recession and beyond Pavlina Tcherneva; Part VI. The Way Forward: 13. Demand, finance, and uncertainty beyond the great recession Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari and Mark Setterfield.

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'It has come as a shock to some that decades of relative economic stability could end with the calamity of the Great Recession and continued economic stagnation. Yet, many economists did see the writing on the wall, warning us that decades of productivity gains outstripping wage growth and increased reliance on debt and complicated and increasingly risky financial instruments were a recipe for disaster. The authors in this volume lay out the paths that policy makers could take that would deliver good jobs and sustained economic stability. This time, we should seriously consider their advice.' Heather Boushey, Senior Economist, Center for American Progress 'After the Great Recession is an outstanding collection of essays by some of the most insightful economists working in the United States today. The real-world significance of this volume stands in stark contrast to the failures of virtually all orthodox economists to either understand the causes of the recession or offer viable solutions for ending it or preventing similar disasters in the future. This book deserves careful study and a wide professional readership.' Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 'This is the definitive statement from the fragile financial sector wing of post-Keynesian economists as to why we should be deeply pessimistic about where the economy is and where it is likely to remain.' Eugene Smolensky, University of California, BerkeleyWeiterlesen…